The
Loch Ness monster of Georgia said to inhabit the Altahama River,
also called Ha-Ha. The Tama Indians of the area have a legend of
a large, snake-like creature. Reports of a 'big snake' continued
into modern times. Reported to be 1- to 30 feet long, with a snout,flat
tail,dorsal fin with the thickness of a man's body and swims with
an undulating motion.

Bessie is described as
a
gray, snakelike create that inhabits Lake
Erie, first sighted in 1817
and is about 20~30ft long . Sighting have been recorded as far back as
1898 .Some believe it may be a huge sturgeon . The American Hockey
League team from Cleveland, the Lake Erie
Monsters, is
named after Bessie. Possibly a large sturgeon. Lake Erie was known as
the caviar capital of America till the sturgeon were almost fished out
of existence there, but is slowly making a comeback.

Black
River MonsterBlack River, New
York.eel-like creature sighted about 15 feet long with fins

BloopsUnexplained sound
recordings by undersea microphones used to track submarines. A 1997
bloop was detected 3,000 miles apart, louder than any known animal.

A resident monster in
Benyok, at Lake
Bronso ( Бросно ), 250 miles
northwest of Moscow .There
have been Brosnie sightings for 150 years . Legends about it date back
to the 1200s.

Bunyip

A large, hairy lake
monster
with a horselike face of ancient Aboriginal folklore that is said to
live in Lake
George and Lake Bathurst,
Australia . Many sightings in the 1830s with scant modern reports.

Fun Bunyip song
from an old Aussie
kid's show, where the Bunyip is the boogeyman

Caddy

A large snakelike
creature
seen from the coast of Alaska to Oregon, Most sightings are close to
Vancover Island .reports of the creature go back to pre-Columbian
times, with some Indian petroglyphs seeming to depict the creature .
Some scientist say there is enough evidence to give it the scientific
name Cadborosaurus
willsi.

Lake
monster in Russia named Nesski, claimed to have killed 19 fishermen
. Chany Lake is 770 miles long and is sited in the central Barabinsk
steppe region of West Siberia. This lake is counted amongst the
largest freshwater lakes of Russia.

Chessie
is a
serpent-like creature said to
inhabit Chesapeake Bay. A famous 1982 video
by Robert Frew shows a
large,
snakelike creature

Champ

Champ, is the Lake
Champlain
monster .Reports of a large creature in the lake go back to 1609, the
local indians call it chaousarou.Lake
Champlain is the largest
body of water in the US after the Great Lakes .

Reports
from Chiemsee,
the largest
freshwater lake in Bavaria, known as the Barvarian Sea.

Colossal
ClaudeCreature sighted in the
Columbia River, Oregon

Con
Rit - Great sea
Centipede

Con rit is the
Vietnamese
word for millipede, the name for a snakelike creature of the coast of
Vietnam .A con rit was reported to have washed ashore in 1883 that was
60 feet long and 3 feet wide in Along Bay, Vietnam. Some have
speculated that it is the inspiration for the Asian dragon
symbol.

Daedalus
sighting

In 1848, the year
europe was being rocked by
revolutions, a sighting by several officers on the HMS
Daedalus caused a sensation . On
Aug 6th the Daedalus was sailing
near the Cape of good Hope when a midshipman saw something advacing
rapidly torward the ship . He told the ship's officers and seven men,
includuding Captain Peter M'quhae saw what they described as a huge sea
serpent . The visible part of the creature measured more than 60 feet,
but only seemed to be 15 inches in diameter .It's color was dark brown
and had some sort of mane . It did not undulate as a serpant on the
water .The sighting caused a sensation when it was reported in the
press .

Lake
Dakataua monster

A
lake monster called Migo by the
natives said to
inhabit Lake Dakataua in New
Britain .
A
Japanese film crew filmed a blurry creature while investigating in 1993.

In 1960, a huge fleshy
mas 18x20ft washed ashore Tasmania and was estimated to have weighed
5~10 tons. Recent studies of samples have shown it to be a whale

Gloucester
Sea Serpent

In the summer of
1817and
continuing through the 19th century, there was a spate of
reports
of a large sea serpent 60ft to100ft long on the New
England
coast and became called the 'Glocester Sea Serpent.'Some have
speculated that overfishing led to the demise of these serpents as
there have been very few reports in the last 50 years .more info

From 1933 onward, a
picture has emerged from
investigations of reports of large animals in the loch having existed
for centuries.The earliest known
report is said to be found
in the Life
of St. Columbia by Adamnan,
written sometime
during the 7th century. It
describes how in 565 Columba saved the life of a Pict, who was being
supposedly attacked by the monster

MishipizheuMishipizheu is the name
given lake monster or underwater panthers said to inhabit Lake
Superior by the Ojibwe Indians.video
of an ancient pictrograph
of Mishipizheu

Montauk
Monster

The
identity of this creature,
which reportedly washed up in Montauk
New
York beach and dubbed the 'Montauk Monster' last month, has captivated
the internet and is dividing animal experts. According to some experts,
it is the body of a rare raccoon .
According
to one of the first people to find
it,Christina Pampalone, it was about 3 feet long .Some of the
rumours about it are that it was created in a government lab on nearby
Plum island or a sea turtle without a shell .To
complicate matters,
no
one seems to know exactly
where the mysterious 'monster' is now more
info

For more than 200 years,
there have been reports of a ' monster ' in central Africa in the Ubangi,
Sanga and
Ikelemba Rivers and Lake
Tele.
Mokèlé-mbèmbé is the name
given
to a large creature reported to live in the lakes and swamps of theCongo
River basin.it has
been suggested that the
creature might be a dinosaur such as a brachiosaur or
a stegosaur
which survived extinction . It may also refer to many different
creatures.Several expeditions have been sent into what is now Zaire,
with no conclusive photographic or physical evidence . Though the
"living dinosaur" theory for Mokele-mbembe might be the best-known
explanation, it has seen very little support from mainstream
scientists. The latest expeditions to the area were by two Japanese
teams in 1978 and 1992 and reported seeing a larged animal. The civil
wars in
Zaire have cancelled more recent planned expeditions in Zaire and
shifted attention to the Cameroon, where the creature is known as
la
Kela-bembe. more
info

The largest fish in the ocean, found in all tropical seas, has been found up to 17 m or 56 feet. The occasional beachings of oarfish after storms, and their habit of lingering at the surface when sick or dying, make oarfish a probable source of many sea serpent tales.

Lake
Pend OreilleThere have been reports
of a large, fast moving object in the waters of Lake
Pend Oreille in Idaho since the
1940s. Some suggest it could be a large sturgeon, which can grow
12 feet in length. The U.S. navy tests submarine models in
the lake due to its great depth, which could account for some
sightings. more
infophoto
and story

Lake
PayetteAnother deep lake in
Idaho, USA has reports of a lake monster called Sharlie.

Pepie

Pepie
is a lake monster said to inhabit Lake Pepin,
the largest lake on the Mississippi in Minnesota

In Jilin, China, close
to
the Changbai area sightings .Sightings of a creature since the 1950s
about 30 feet long, with a flurry of sightings in 1999.In 1992 a soldier visiting the lake on leave reported being attacked by a dragon like creature.

Storsjoodjuret

Sweden's most famous
lake
monster,in Lake
Storsjon. with hundred
of reported sightings,
with
reports going back as 1635. Also called Storsie.

Lake
Utopia MonsterossibSighted in Lake
Utopia, New Brunswick. Described
by local Micmac Indians as a ferocious serpent . Many
sightings in the 1800s led to a local group to try to capture it in
1870 with large nets, with no result.

Volkhov River MonsterCreature seen in the
Volkhov
River in Novgorod,
Russia. video

Lake VorotaAnother black,
long-necked creature about 30 feet long said to inhabit remote Lake
Vorota in Siberia. A scientific team sent in the early 1960s reported
seeing humps in the water. more
info and other Siberian lake monsters

White
River MonsterWhite
River, Arkansas. According to
legend, a large creature rammed the hull of a Confederate riverboat
carrying several million dollars in gold during the American Civil War,
causing the riverboat to sink. Described by a witness in 1937 as
large white creature 12 to 65 feet in length with
body of an alligator and a face elephant seal.videomore
info

Windermere

Largest natural lake
in England, sightings of
an eel like creature, sometimes called Bownessie . more
info

This list of lake and
sea monsters is by no means complete. There are many other locations
with sightings as well. Some of the more common explanations for
monster sightings are : logs, otters (Giant Otters can grow up to 6 ft,
the otter in this video
appears to be a lake monster at first glance, giant sturgeons,giant
catfish,
and schools of fish.

long necked reptiles
that lived during the Mesozoic Era and died out with the dinosaurs and
the end of the Cretaceous with the KT
mass extinction

65 million years ago ?
While they were marine animals, some fossils have been found
in what were then rivers .

However, how could a
modern day plesiosaur live in northern latitudes such as Loch Ness and
Lake Champlain ? It would have to be a mammal. Some suggest it may be a
type of basilosaurus
, the elongated snake like ancestor of modern day whales and lived
35-40 million years ago.

Another explanation for Nessie and other European lake monsters is that people are sighting a large European eel (Anguilla anguilla), which live in Loch Ness in large numbers. The common European eel grows to a maximum length of about six feet or 1.8 metres in length. These eels are generally believed to spawn in the Sargasso Sea. The larvae
(Leptocephalus) drift towards Europe in a three-hundred-day migration . These eels have the ability to 'walk' on land up to 8 hours.

Some look
for an explanation in our own minds. It is all part of our collective
unconscious and as the wave of ufo sightings in the 1950s reflect an
underlying fear of the Cold War going hot and a wish for an
otherworldly savior, lake monster sighting reflect a deep seated need
for a monster to exist. People expect and want to see them,
so they do.

In 1925,
legendary
explorer Percy
Fawcett ventured into uncharted
realms of the Amazon
jungle in order to discover "The Lost City of Z," an ancient
civilization that he believed could have been the basis for the
mythical El Dorado. Fawcett and his party disappeared, never to be
heard from again. Eighty years later, David Grann, an ordinary reporter
for The New Yorker, uncovered Fawcett's diaries and found himself
compelled to follow in the footsteps of the intrepid adventurer. An
inspiration for The Lost
World
and Indiana Jones